Teacher Resources

Lesson Plans and Teaching Ideas

Kindergarten Lesson Plans

Ask ERIC: http://ericir.syr.edu/

Collaborative Lesson Archive: http://faldo.atmos.uiuc.edu/CLA/

Lessons PlanPage.Com over 2,000 free lesson plans:  http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

Teacher lesson plans, bulletin boards, and teacher resources:  http://www.teachnet.com/

 Marco Polo provides the highest quality, standards-based Internet content and professional development to K-12 teachers and students throughout the United States http://www.marcopolo-education.org/

Busy Teacher's Cafe

Teaching Books.net

Virtual Manipulatives

Comic Strip Site

 

Literature Sites

Marathon County Public Library: http://www.mcpl.us

Carol Hurst’s Children’s Literature Site: This is a collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics. http://www.carolhurst.com/index.html

TeachingBooks.net is an unparalleled, multimedia children's literature database that utilizes cutting edge technologies to connect educators and families with authors, books and authoritative teaching materials http://www.teachingbooks.net/

Cooperative Children’s Book Center- University of Wisconsin Madison: http://www.soemadison.wisc.edu/ccbc/

Scholastic Teacher Page:  http://teacher.scholastic.com/

 

Science Sites

Resources for K-12 Earth Science Educators http://www.geosociety.org/educate/resources.htm#age

Science experiments made with inexpensive, easily available materials: http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/#science

 PBS activity where you can see how technology has changed in the last century. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/tech/

Build a carbon atom out of quarks and electrons, but watch out for radioactive decay http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/atom/

 Resource for teaching earth science:  http://earth.nasa.gov/education/

Contains short movies about various science concepts:  http://www.brainpop.com/

Classroom of the Future: As a courtesy to NASA's research centers, COTF streams NASA Television (NTV) over the Internet using the RealVideo format. NTV provides educational information on space sciences, and live coverage of activities related to the U.S. space program.  http://www.cotf.edu/ntv/main.html

 

Teaching Resources

Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/

PBS Teacher Source Page:  http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/

Best Practices in Mathematics Education: http://www.bestpraceduc.org/

Educational World - Where Educators Go to Learn: http://www.education-world.com/

A library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites on the Web: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/

Electric Teacher: http://www.electricteacher.com/

Puzzlemaker: http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/

Teacher's Connection: http://www.teachers.net/

Teacher Magazine: http://www.edweek.com/tm/tm.htm

Teacher Talk: http://www.mightymedia.com/talk/working.htm

Teaching K-8: http://www.teachingk-8.com/

Writing Across the Curriculum : http://ewu66649.ewu.edu/WAC.html \

 http://www.lightspan.com/

Information about copyright law: http://www.stfrancis.edu/cid/copyrightbay/

The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans, curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet.  http://www.thegateway.org/

National Council on Economic Education:  http://www.ncee.net/resources/

U.S. EPA Environmental Education Center http://www.epa.gov/teachers

 

Web Quests

 WebQuest Matrix Grades K-12:  http://edweb.sdsu.edu/webquest/matrix.html

Web Quest Rubric Maker:  http://teachers.teach-nology.com/web_tools/rubrics/webquest/

 

Government and Professional Organizations

National Council of Teachers of English: http://www.ncte.org/

National Education Association: http://www.nea.org/

National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/

National Science Teachers Association: http://www.nsta.org/

Wisconsin DPI Educators’ Page: http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/dltcl/lbstat/educatorspage.html

Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development: http://www.ascd.org

Eisenhower National Clearinghouse:http://www.enc.org

Wisconsin Education Association Council:  http://www.weac.org/

U.S. Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov/

 

Teaching Materials and Freebies

Free Stuff for Teachers: http://www.compusmart.ab.ca/jmardres/free.html

http://www.freethings4educators.com/

Teacher Created Materials: http://www.teachercreated.com/

 

Technology Links

E-Pals: http://www.epals.com/

Classroom Connect :  http://www.classroom.net/inspire.jhtml;jsessionid=P3BXY55S24IZHQFICQFC2SQ?_requestid=22255

Journey North http://www.learner.org/jnorth/

Information on Integrating Technology:  http://www.4teachers.org/

Postcard Geography: http://pcg.cyberbee.com/

Link to Collaborative Classroom Projects  http://www.eduplace.com/projects/

Global SchoolHouse Network : http://www.gsn.org/

Online Activities at Scholastic:  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/

Discover America Through Postcards: http://www.postcardsfrom.com/

Global Online Adventure Learning Site: http://www.goals.com/Index.htm

The JASON Foundation for Education is dedicated to inspiring in students a lifelong passion to pursue learning in science, math, and technology through exploration and discovery. :http://www.jasonproject.org/

 

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